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28 November 2008
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - November 28-30, 2008
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for a bit of a challenge this weekend? Then break out the big telescope and let's go galaxy hunting in Cetus as we have a look at Hickson Compact Group 16. If you'd like to try something a little easier, then "monkey" around with planetary nebula, [...]
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21 November 2008
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - November 21 - 23, 2008
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for the weekend? It's Friiiiiday and it's time to make a date with the Queen as we gather up a few more studies in the great constellation of Cassiopeia. Since we've got some dark skies ahead of us, expect to be a little more "challenged" this [...]
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14 November 2008
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - November 14-16, 2008
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for one terrific weekend? Although the Moon will interfere, one of the year's best meteor showers is about to happen - the Leonids. Will it be the super-storm that produced thousands of meteors as it did a few years ago? Don't hold your breath - [...]
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07 November 2008
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - November 7-9, 2008
Greetings, fellow StarGeezers! It's Friiiii day… And another great weekend forecast. Does having all this Moon around get you down? It shouldn't. Where else could you find another world that you could so intimately study detail with even the most modest of telescopes or binoculars? Instead of cursing Luna's presence, [...]
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31 October 2008
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - October 31 - November 2, 2008
Happy Halloween! Are you ready for the Spook's Tour? Tonight treat your little ghouls and goblins, party guests and yourself to a real sweet treat through your telescope or binoculars as we take a look at some of the season's craziest (and scariest) outer space objects. It's a time honored custom that's sure to [...]
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24 October 2008
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - October 24-26, 2008
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's a dark sky weekend and a great time to get out your binoculars or telescopes and enjoy. Use bright star - Formalhaut - to help you find distant planet Uranus… and the "Great Square of Pegasus" to help you find an even more distant galaxy! Would you like to [...]
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15 October 2008
Feeding Time at the Stellar Zoo: Infant Stars Generate Lots of Gas
Understanding how stars form is critical to astronomers. If we can gain a better understanding of how intermediate-size infant stars grow, we can begin to answer some of the most perplexing questions hanging over the evolution of our own Solar System. Unfortunately, the nearest star forming regions are about 500 light years away, meaning that [...]
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13 October 2008
Violent Polar Cyclones on Saturn Imaged in Unprecedented Detail by Cassini
The Cassini mission has released some of the most detailed images of Saturn's poles yet, revealing vast cyclones churning up the gas giant's atmosphere in the north and south. These observations show very similar storms to the south pole observations imaged by the NASA spacecraft in 2006, only in far better detail. It is believed [...]
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10 October 2008
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - October 10-12, 2008
Greetings, fellow Skywatchers! It's Friiiiday! Are you ready for the weekend? Sure, it's going to be a rather moony affair, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy. Why not take the time to hunt down Neptune, or check out a cool crater like Letronne? We can always shoot for a [...]
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03 October 2008
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - October 3-5, 2008
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's Friiiiiiday… And time to head out to the Moon to begin some lunar exploration. Why not? This weekend commemorates Robert Goddard's birthday! While we're rocketing skyward, we'll take a look at a great globular cluster that's easy in both binoculars and telescopes, plus a few great [...]
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01 October 2008
New Findings Challenge "Dynamo Effect" of Galactic Magnetic Fields
A team of astronomers has obtained the first direct measurement of a young galaxy's magnetic field, and were surprised at their findings. Using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, the researchers were able to peer back in time, to gauge the nascent galaxy’s magnetic field as [...]
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26 September 2008
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - September 26-28, 2008
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's a dark sky weekend and a great opportunity to really get to know some unusual deep sky objects - like brilliant open clusters and tiny compact galaxy groups. Even if you just sit outside and stargaze, you might catch a member of the Alpha Aurigid meteor shower! Are [...]
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24 September 2008
Observing Alert: Outburst of GK Persei
Wake up, all you variable star observers!! According to AAVSO Alert Notice 384 released just minutes ago, the cataclysmic variable star - GK Persei - is beginning to wake up and appears to be entering another outburst. (...)Read the rest of Observing Alert: Outburst of GK Persei (250 words) © Tammy Plotner for Universe [...]
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19 September 2008
The Cepheids Aren't Falling
Cepheid variable stars have been used for years as a way to determine distance to other galaxies. The correlation between their period of variability and absolute luminosity provides a cosmic yardstick to measure distances out to a few tens of millions of light-years. Additionally, Cepheids closer to home are used as tools to [...]
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19 September 2008
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - September 19-21, 2008
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you psyched up for tonight's Pleiades occultation? I am! While the Moon often passes near the ancient cluster, it's not often we get to enjoy such a great event so well placed at a comfortable time of the year. This weekend we'll be watching for ISS passes, [...]
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